ORNL Electronic Notebook Architecture Al Geist Jens Schwidder

ORNL Electronic Notebook Architecture Al Geist Jens Schwidder David Jung Computer Science & Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Research sponsored by Mathematics, Information and Computational Sciences Office U. S. Department of Energy

ORNL Electronic Notebook Shared electronic notebook Accessible with password through secure web site Reading entries Drag and drop notes from private to shared notebooks Annotation by remote colleagues Personal (stand alone) notebook www. csm. ornl. gov/~geist/ Advantages and Features – ease of use, intuitive –look&feel of paper notebook – access from any web browser – no software to install – can be shared across group – or setup as personal notebook – can run stand alone on laptop Input from • Keyboard • Files • Images • voice • Instruments • sketchpad

ORNL Basic Notebook Functionality Modification buttons Navigation buttons Notebook Title Change history (pull down list) Page location Searching

Features of ADD page Three input methods 1. Text/HTML 2. Quick sketch 3. File/image upload Author (required) Title (required) Keywords Type or cut and paste text or HTML Upload image and caption or PDF or MS Office file

Many uses besides Compliant Notebooks Existing Uses: The technology lends itself to a broad set of uses many of which don’t require any special compliance – – – shared project notes proposal development meeting notes instrument logs centrally updated manuals (chemical) inventory distance learning teaching tool patient medical records medical research logs project tracking private notebooks

New Features in Version 1. 12 User Requested Features Subscription to sets of notebooks and daily notification of changes if any Ability to print hardcopy of all or set pages matching a search General Improvements Improved default search results Added addendums to change history Allow display of XML and HTML tags rather than execution Evolution with Web Browsers Extended Image upload types pjpeg, x-png, etc. Removed old Java sketchpad User Customizations For example, PSC adding feature to generate compliance page

Customization thru Worksheet Templates For certain experiments it is much more efficient to present notebook users with a custom form (worksheet) to record data. Selective Image grab Some data automatically inserted by the instrument Template produced by Nestor Zaluzec for the Materials Microscopy Collaboratory

Customized for Instrument Controls Template produced by Nestor Zaluzec Argonne Lab

ORNL enote Security Modifications New Features Add SSL encryption Access by PKI certificates Ability to create notebooks remotely and to set access policy Auditing access success and failure Modifications produced by Jim Rome of ORNL For Materials Group. See enote cookbook for SW

ORNL enote Security Modifications (cont) To wrap the ORNL V 1. 12 notebook in a PKI access scheme was quite simple: q About 4 lines of perl code are changed and created dynamically for each newly created notebook q The Alliare JRun servlet engine is used to mediate all access and to output the notebook html code onto an encrypted (SSL) server. q Auxiliary servlets are used to allow notebook management (creation, access control policy)

Enote Used for Remote Collaboration Instrument monitor and control panel Imbedded in page Courtesy of Michael Wright